PhD By Design conference was organised by PhD students in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London

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Leeds satellite session

PhD by Design Satellite Session at Leeds College of Art

Making knowledge travel: exploring modes of dissemination for practice-based design research

What

On Thursday the 14th May 2015, we organised a PhD by Design study and workshop day hosted at Leeds College of Art to explore questions around the dissemination of practice-based design research.

The topic of the day was inspired by the many questions raised around research dissemination during the PhD by Design conference at Goldsmiths in November 2014.

Through this study day, we wanted to make space for tentative yet innovative ideas rather than gathering around polished knowledge and methods of dissemination. Everyone attending the day presented and contributed to create a supportive environment for discussion and exploration.

Some of the questions we aim to tackle are:

• Who is the audience for practice-based design research? And how can we reach it?

• What ways of disseminating reflect the inventive ways in which practice-based research is done?

• How to write up research with non-academic collaborators?

• How to push the boundaries of what counts as research and valuable dissemination?

• How to mediate that which is not linguistic in practice-based research?

Physical outcome

As an outcome of the day, all the participants contributed to creating the first issue of an Instant Journal. So that at the end of the day, everyone went home with a record of the knowledge, ideas and proposals generated during the workshop day.